Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
I think octal is a historical relic from a time when people weren't yet comfortable with hexadecimal.
Octal made perfect sense for all PDP models up to the PDP-10, which had word sizes that were a multiple of 3 bits. It still partly made sense for the PDP-11, because its instruction encoding fitted well with octal. Hex came into vogue in the DEC world with the VAX, which was both byte-addressed and had a hex-oriented instruction encoding. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
